Only one of the measures (category fluency) was associated with prednisone use, indicating that those on prednisone had a lower fluency score (p = 0.02); however, none of the other 11 test scores showed an association.
A recent meta-analysis also indicated that the largest deficits in performance on measures of lexical fluency are associated with left frontal lobe lesions [22].
An assessment of verbal fluency was associated with Factor 6 (Articulation) and CCC – coherence 9y (p<0.001).
In healthy individuals, verbal fluency is associated with a network of activation in cortical and subcortical regions [ 9, 12].
Reduced semantic fluency was associated with hypometabolism again in the left hemisphere, namely the inferior frontal junction (BA6/8/44), all frontal gyri (BA8/9, 44 47), anterior and middle insula and deep frontal operculum (BA14/15).
When added as Step 3 to OLS regression models, language fluency was associated with an additional decrease in the likelihood of screening for physical (beta coefficient = -.38, P <.001), sexual (beta coefficient = -.24, P =.05), and emotional abuse (beta coefficient = -.48, P <.001) and increased the variance explained by the model to 25%, 17%, and 31%, respectively.
Although it is possible that low scores on category fluency are associated with word finding difficulties which interfere with communication and interaction more obviously than do memory difficulties per se, and impact negatively on QoL for this reason, the lack of association between QoL and Graded Naming Test scores does not support this explanation.
Although fluency is often associated with language, researchers have extended fluency to other fields such as physics, chemistry, engineering, and mathematics.
The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the fluency intervention, Behavioral Momentum (BM), on acquisition of tacts and associated fluency outcomes in three children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Also, unadjusted there was no significant association between the letter fluency test (using "s") and FFM (P > 0.05), however after adjustment for BMI and DART, letter fluency was significantly associated with FFM (t 2.34, p = 0.02, partial eta squared 7.7%).
